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Re: Obama Health-Care Reform Act Ruled Unconstitutional(edited)

You don't really want to get into the Health Care Debate with me.....you like every other Lefty have NO idea whats in it.

And you do?

Now, back to what you have before you. Just try sticking with that.

AUSTAN GOOLSBEE:I think the world vests too much power, certainly in the president, probably in Washington in general for its influence on the economy, because most all of the economy has nothing to do with the government.

Re: Obama Health-Care Reform Act Ruled Unconstitutional(edited)

You aren't going to get either

We don't want it.

Originally Posted by Boo Radley

you do realize that isn't what I said? The forcing wasn't through votes, but through misinformation and fearmongering that led to lack of public support. Congress is especially subject to public outcry. It cost a lot to get this watered down version, and would ahve cost far more to do more.

Re: Obama Health-Care Reform Act Ruled Unconstitutional(edited)

yesterday:

Health care lobbyists and advocates are bracing for six pages of the health care reform law to explode into a phonebook-sized federal regulation when the Department of Health and Human Services releases its long-delayed accountable care organization rule expected this week.

“What, you expected less than a thousand pages for legislation that only took a page and half?” a staffer with one of the current proto-ACOs asked.

The staffer exaggerated; the Affordable Care Act devoted about six pages, not one and a half, to the accountable care organizations — networks of hospitals and doctors that are supposed to drive down costs and improve care by sharing responsibility for patients. A senior administration official said the rule is not a thousand pages, but he declined to say how many pages it is.

How do you turn six pages of legislation into hundreds of pages of rules? You kind of have to, in order to settle all of the questions that hospitals and doctors want settled so they don’t get into trouble.

They have to know who can become an accountable care organization – a formula that could be different in different parts of the country – and how you’d know if the organization actually saved money. They’d need to know how to report what they’re doing. And they need to know how to join together without breaking the antitrust laws that are already on the books.

At one point, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator Don Berwick had suggested the rules would be out by Jan. 15. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who had promised that the regulations would be out by the end of March, said last week that they’d be out “in the next couple weeks.”

The silence has left room for plenty of speculation. Several industry sources have told POLITICO that they’re expecting at least 1,000 pages of regulations to emerge from the process.

Re: Obama Health-Care Reform Act Ruled Unconstitutional(edited)

Who's we? you'll find the nation quite divided. Some who oppose this reform oppose it because it didn't go far enough, almost as many as who oppose it because it went to far.

AUSTAN GOOLSBEE:I think the world vests too much power, certainly in the president, probably in Washington in general for its influence on the economy, because most all of the economy has nothing to do with the government.